Advent Colour case study

Advent Colour, a digital lithographic printer based Hampshire, had manually packed and labelled boxes for many years. A free on site-consultation with Loveshaw and subsequent on-site demonstration changed all that.

Advent Colour’s scepticism about Loveshaw’s ability to automate a process that had been performed by hand for years gave way to delight as the installation of three Little David case sealers, each fitted with a Microjet2 two line dot-matrix case coder, meant that boxes no longer had to be pre-made before filling, and were sealed automatically. Hand applied labels are also now a thing of the past.

As their confidence in Loveshaw’s professionalism, quality of service and products grew, Advent reviewed other areas of their production process. The result? A Loveshaw ‘EASY’ pallet wrapper has replaced the old hand-wrapping approach to pallet stabilisation.

More efficient and safer pallet distribution as there is now no risk of hand-burn from manual application of the film, dizziness (caused by staff walking around the pallet) and potential back problems

Space saving, as an area to make boxes is no longer required and the Loveshaw machines have a small ‘footprint’

Reduction in the cost of peripherals (labels, for example).

As Kevin Green, General Manager for Loveshaw Europe, put it :-

"Any company putting product in boxes could benefit from our packaging machinery. Case sealers are machines that will apply tape to a cardboard box and seal it. The LD7, for example, our entry level case sealer, can handle a wide range of boxes, has a single mast so change over from one size of box to another is extremely quick and requires very little maintenance. It’s available for less than £5 per day, so will pay for itself even if used for just one hour."